Sean looks back at the campaign of Nikkhi Haley and reminds the audience that there really isn't a path to victory. Sean explains the latest situation for the GOP nomination race.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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| All right, thanks, Scott Shannon, and happy Friday. | |
| Thanks for all of you for being with us. | |
| 800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, I thought for sure that there were going to be maybe the four trials that Trump would face in an election year. | |
| I'm beginning to think there might not be any by the end of the day. | |
| We just had this news breaking that Fulton County DA Fannie Willis has now been forced to admit that she was having an affair with the prosecutor. | |
| By the way, this guy apparently, according to every report I read, no experience at all in this area of prosecuting Donald Trump and people that had a lot more experience were paid less money. | |
| And then, of course, the $654,000 that this guy made in the trips that they took to D.C. together, you know, for the Biden White House, et cetera. | |
| We'd like to know what happened there. | |
| But putting that aside and, you know, the extravagant vacations. | |
| But anyway, she admitted she was having an affair with him. | |
| This has now become impossible for even the most pro-Biden media to ignore. | |
| Even the New York Times has been forced to cover this, that Fannie Willis, the DA prosecuting the Georgia election interference case against Trump, acknowledged on Friday a personal relationship with this prosecutor she hired to manage the case, but argued that it is not a reason to disqualify her or her office from it. | |
| Wrong answer. | |
| Not quite. | |
| The admission came almost a month after allegations of this improper clandestine relationship between the two surfaced in a motion from one of Trump's co-defendants. | |
| The motion now seeks to disqualify both prosecutors and Mrs. Willis' office now is from even handling the case. | |
| I don't think they should be. | |
| They're not in a position to handle it. | |
| There's obviously been personal motives behind all of this from the get-go. | |
| And I think we really got to examine whether or not we want attorneys generals and attorney generals and we want prosecutors running their political campaigns with promises to go after one person, one family, one organization. | |
| Not sure if that's exactly equal justice under the law. | |
| Then they got to fulfill the campaign promise. | |
| But anyway, the issue is now going big time in Georgia. | |
| We'll see what the Georgia state legislature does with all of this. | |
| This is going to get pretty interesting. | |
| Jim Jordan now has subpoenaed Fannie Willis after Willis ignored three requests to produce documents. | |
| And the House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jordan subpoenaed Willis as she's accused of misusing federal funds in Georgia. | |
| This subpoena comes after the Judiciary Committee requested the documents on three different occasions in August of 23, September of 23, December of 23. | |
| To date, you have failed to comply voluntarily with any of our requests. | |
| The committee wrote. | |
| She stands accused of using part of the $488,000 federal grant allocated for the purpose of helping at youth risk for frivolous, unrelated expenses. | |
| And it went on to say that the money was used for MacBooks, clothes, and travel. | |
| And the subpoena requires that Willis turn over every document and communications referring to or relating to the Fulton County DA's office receipts, the use of federal funds included but not limited to the federal funds from the Department of Justice office programs. | |
| Now, by all accounts, I could say you could probably knock this out. | |
| I don't see this case really going forward here. | |
| I just don't. | |
| But it's possible. | |
| I don't even think Alvin Bragg in New York, I don't even think he's ever settled on a real charge for what he's charging Donald Trump with anyway. | |
| There's no way that Donald Trump is going to get a fair hearing in New York. | |
| He's not going to get a fair hearing in D.C. for sure. | |
| I mean, about 5% of the population in D.C. voted for Donald Trump. | |
| It's not exactly a jury pool that any conservative, Republican, or Trump supporter or Trump himself would ever want to be a part of. | |
| And so I'm not sure how long is this going to take to resolve the issues of immunity, other constitutional issues involving Jack Smith's status, which now Congress is investigating as well. | |
| We'll see what the outcome of that is. | |
| There's a lot of questions and a lot of pretrial motions that take place in all these cases. | |
| And the last one being the Florida case that seems to be on a delay as well for a lot of the same reasons. | |
| So I'm not sure if any of them will actually take place this year. | |
| And frankly, the closer we get to the election, and today we're only 276 days away, the more it becomes transparent that Democrats and the court system is being used to impact an election. | |
| And that shouldn't happen under any circumstances. | |
| If the Republican Party nominates Donald Trump, and it appears that they're on the verge of doing that, I mean, we'll learn a lot more after South Carolina, but I think a lot is on the line for Nikki Haley. | |
| I have nothing against Nikki Haley, by the way. | |
| I think she's run a good campaign. | |
| I think she's gotten a point of view out, but the polls in her own state are not particularly good for her right now. | |
| If those poll numbers hold, I think it's, you know, tell me where the path is for Nikki Haley. | |
| You know, what states is she going to target to win that she can be competitive with in terms of electoral, you know, in terms of votes, you know, against Donald Trump or delegates to the convention. | |
| Anyway, it's getting interesting. | |
| You know, I want to tell you something that happened yesterday nobody paid a lot of attention to. | |
| 150 Democrats, they don't even want to deport illegal immigrants caught drunk driving. | |
| I mean, it's not bad enough that they don't respect our laws, our borders, and our sovereignty. | |
| It's not bad enough that our president, Joe Biden, aids a bets, and now we learned, and we reported yesterday, is handing out over a billion dollars in benefits to illegal immigrants. | |
| You know, that's bad enough. | |
| Now they don't even want to get rid of anybody that's in this country illegally. | |
| I mean, it's pretty mind-numbing. | |
| And then you had squad members literally vote against a Republican bill to bar Hamas supporters who helped with the October 7th attacks from entering the country. | |
| You can't make this up. | |
| You have Democratic Representatives Corey Bush of Missouri, Congresswoman Talib of Michigan, voting against the No Immigration Benefits for Hamas Terrorists Act. | |
| They were the only two legislators to vote against the legislation. | |
| It passed the House 422-2, one abstention, I guess. | |
| The bill introduced by Republican California Congressman Tom McClintock would mandate any alien who carried out, participated in, planned, financed, afforded material support to, or otherwise facilitated any of the attacks against Israel initiated by Hamas beginning on October the 7th is inadmissible to the United States. | |
| That's the exact text. | |
| Why would you be against? | |
| Oh, so we should invite into the country, according to these squad members, you know, people that are part of a terrorist organization. | |
| Well, God only knows with 10 million unvetted Joe Biden illegal immigrants, how many people that have ties to terrorists are already in the country. | |
| I would argue it's a certainty, 100% certainty, that there are people on terror watch lists and people that are associated with terror groups that are already in the country. | |
| And what might they be thinking? | |
| Do they want a better life for their kids? | |
| Do they want to begin a new future in America? | |
| Have they changed their ways? | |
| Or maybe they're going to plot, plan, scheme the next attack against America on our homeland. | |
| Or as the former top FBI brass said in this letter to Congress, that we have an invasion of military-age men, and it's become the most pernicious national security threat in modern history. | |
| Unbelievable. | |
| And by the way, here's a question I want to throw out here. | |
| So we all watched the beating of these police officers in Times Square. | |
| I know the area exactly, I know the exact area where this took place. | |
| I could walk there when I lived in New York, and Fox is in New York from my office. | |
| I could walk there in less than a minute. | |
| I know exactly where it is. | |
| And they've beaten the hell out of cops. | |
| Now, Times Square, if you've never been there at night, it's kind of like Vegas. | |
| It's lit up like a Christmas tree. | |
| It's all lit up. | |
| There's a lot of light there. | |
| And just in broad daylight, you have the illegal immigrants pounding the crap out of police officers. | |
| And anyway, so then they're arrested, and then they are charged, and then they're let out with no bail because of New York no-bail laws. | |
| Then four of the five apparently now have made their way to California. | |
| Now I have a question. | |
| I'd like to know whether or not, once in California, where they're headed or they're going to, are these illegal immigrants going to have access to that free health care that went into effect for illegal immigrants in California? | |
| Are they going to have access to food stamps? | |
| Are they going to have housing assistance? | |
| Are they going to have financial incentives given to them? | |
| I mean, it's pretty unbelievable, but this is the country we're now living in. | |
| By the way, we're getting a lot of chatter out there that whatever Biden's response is going to be as it relates to the three service members that were killed and the more than 40 others injured, we're hearing chatter that it may happen sometime tonight. | |
| We'll be watching on Hannity tonight, 9 Eastern on the Fox News channel. | |
| The last time I heard this chatter, it did result in a military strike by the Biden administration. | |
| That's when they took out those two empty warehouses with expensive missiles. | |
| So we'll see what happens. | |
| There are reports that terrorists now have been abandoning the bases. | |
| Does that mean somehow they've been tipped off? | |
| A CBS News reporting indicating that some of the militants are already evacuating potential targets. | |
| And if that weren't enough, Biden officials now are giving up everything except specific targets. | |
| Politico reporting today, U.S. intelligence officials, well, they're estimating that Tehran does not have full control of their proxy groups. | |
| The New York Times is pointing out, well, Iran is slowing production of their enriched uranium, according to the IAEA, the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog group, and suggesting that Tehran may be trying to ease tensions with the U.S. If you believe that, then you are nothing but a fool. | |
| I don't know why people think that Joe Biden's such a nice guy. | |
| I don't know why. | |
| There's this impression that Joe Biden, first of all, watch the creepy videos of the guy. | |
| And anyway, so it's been widely reported that he refers to Trump as an effing a-hole. | |
| Okay. | |
| And, you know, he is a sick F-word. | |
| Okay, I just don't care what Joe Biden thinks because I don't even know if he knows who Donald Trump really is. | |
| You know, he lapsed into more gibberish. | |
| I'll play it later in the program today during this campaign speech before the UAW, more brain farts. | |
| And then he was like, you know, shuffling around a Detroit restaurant. | |
| Staffers began to panic. | |
| They didn't have no idea what he was doing. | |
| By the way, you had pro-Palestinian protesters chanting F. Joe Biden, accusing him of genocide. | |
| But, you know, does it really, do you really care what Joe Biden thinks about Donald Trump behind closed doors? | |
| Because I don't really care. | |
| And then Biden, remember, he was taking aim at gas and oil companies. | |
| And just like Gavin Newsom is suing them out in California. | |
| What do you think happened? | |
| Who do you think is going to fund the defense of any lawsuit against an oil company? | |
| Who's going to ultimately pay the price for those high-powered, expensive attorneys? | |
| Well, it's going to be we, the consumer. | |
| Now, Biden's taking aim at grocery stores for ripping people off amid continued high prices. | |
| You know, he said we're being played for suckers. | |
| Grocery stores charge based on what the market bears. | |
| Let me explain simple economics 101. | |
| Supply and demand. | |
| You have a supply, you have a demand. | |
| Where supply and demand crisscross, in other words, where they meet, that usually dictates the price. | |
| Now, if supply is short, that means that the price is going to go higher. | |
| If you have, for example, added costs to the production or transportation of a product, which is basically Biden inflation, well, then that means that you're going to pay more because of Biden's what has been a horrific economic policies, in spite of the media basically proclaiming Bidenomics the greatest thing since sliced bread. | |
| It's not. | |
| Anyway, we'll take a break. | |
| We'll come back. | |
| We'll get to a lot of your calls today. | |
| A lot of other news to get to. | |
| 800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program. | |
| I'm not sure why the Biden administration always feels compelled to do this, but they kind of tip off everybody and that they're going to engage with Iran. | |
| You know, what they're doing by doing that is they're taking away something that's called the element of surprise. | |
| And if you're going to hit an enemy, it's best that they not know when you're coming. | |
| And apparently it's gotten so loud, the chatter that they're going to strike today, that, in fact, we now have terrorist groups and all the people that are involved in potential target living in potential target areas. | |
| They've all been leaving in the lead up to this, meaning that the odds of us getting the people that matter are greatly diminished. | |
| That's a pretty dumb decision of the Biden administration. | |
| You know, my understanding, too, is they're even telling the press, yeah, it's likely going to be today or tonight or soon, and it's about to happen. | |
| Okay, do you have to tell the whole world ahead of time? | |
| Do you really want to tip off the enemy what your military plans are? | |
| Are you really that stupid? | |
| I guess the answer is pretty clear and pretty transparent and pretty obvious. | |
| Solid as a rock, honest, truthful. | |
| This is the Sean Hannity Show. | |
| All right, 25 to the top of the hour. | |
| 800-941, Sean, our number. | |
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| The administration, they want you taxed to death and under the thumb of the IRS. | |
| And now they're even talking about this digital dollar, which should scare a lot of people. | |
| It certainly scares me. | |
| By the way, airstrikes apparently have started in Syria. | |
| So I'm thinking that tonight is going to be a pretty interesting night when we get on Hannity at 9 Eastern. | |
| We'll let you know. | |
| But anyway, long story short, something is happening. | |
| But why did they tip everybody off? | |
| Because apparently everybody around the world knew that they were likely coming today. | |
| And, you know, we have reports that even the enemy was tipped off and they were leaving potential target locations. | |
| How did that happen? | |
| How did that get released? | |
| It's unreal. | |
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| So here's my first question just off the top of my head. | |
| And I'm just going to be very blunt about this. | |
| And I'm torn about it, too, because I don't think Joe Biden is capable of dealing with a situation as complicated as the Iranians. | |
| We know that his foreign policies have been a disaster starting with the withdrawal from Afghanistan. | |
| We know that his appeasement policies with Iran have resulted in just nearly 200 attacks against U.S. installations in Iraq and Syria and U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria. | |
| So what happened in Jordan was just a continuation of what has been going on. | |
| There have been no real consequences, none at all, actually, to these hostile acts of terror against Americans. | |
| Now, do I want a war with the United States and Iran? | |
| Nope. | |
| Does anybody listening to my voice right now want a war with Iran and the United States? | |
| Nope. | |
| Is there anybody in this audience that doesn't understand the need for a deterrent if they are trying to kill and attempting to kill and attacking and bombing areas where our U.S. military personnel are? | |
| Because if you don't respond, it's never going to stop. | |
| I'm not calling for an all-out war. | |
| What I'm calling for is a proportional response. | |
| And a proportional response to me isn't what Joe Biden has been doing up to this point, which is kissing the asses of the mullahs in Iran and trying to appease them. | |
| That's what his foreign policy has been. | |
| And he's done this a number of ways. | |
| Number one, he's turned a blind eye to the embargo that prevents them from selling the sanctions that prevents them from selling their oil. | |
| And so they've been making hundreds of billions of dollars doing that. | |
| That makes the number one state sponsor of terror very wealthy. | |
| That allows them to foment more terror, to fund more terror, to use more of their proxy groups like the Houdi rebels and Hamas and Hezbollah. | |
| So that's what's been happening. | |
| All of it very predictable. | |
| And why would Iran ever think if after 175 attacks on U.S. soldiers and they don't get a response or the only response they got was taking out two empty warehouses, why would they fear Joe Biden at all? | |
| And then when Joe Biden partnered with the UK and they supposedly were going after Houdi rebels, well, apparently I think the casualty was like five people. | |
| That's not a proportional response. | |
| That's not a message that's going to be received by people that only live in a world of fear. | |
| Now, you're saying, okay, then, Hannity, what would you do? | |
| I would hit the Iranians so hard where it's going to hurt them the most, and that's in their pocketbook. | |
| And part of the strategy would be military. | |
| The other part of the strategy would be the sanctions, except this time, stop turning a blind eye towards Iran selling their oil on the world market and taking in $80 billion to $100 billion alone from China. | |
| But then again, this is the same Joe Biden that wouldn't confront China. | |
| But if Joe Biden were to target Iranian refineries, well, that just rips out the foundation of their entire economy. | |
| That would be an effective deterrent. | |
| That would work. | |
| Now, do I think the world at some point, united, not just the United States, better start thinking about what a nuclear-armed Iran would mean to the world and the existential threat it would mean to the region and the rest of the world? | |
| Yeah, I think the world better start thinking in advance because we know they have been enriching uranium at a furious rate. | |
| We're pretty confident, even the IAEA acknowledges that they're near military-grade weapon uranium. | |
| So that means they'll have a weapon. | |
| We know they have the means to launch it. | |
| Well, if you marry radical Islamic mullahs in Iran and their sick, twisted, ugly ideology with weapons of mass destruction, well, that's a prescription basically for a modern-day Holocaust. | |
| So the world, not just the United States, ought to consider maybe preventing Iran from ever getting nuclear weapons. | |
| Now, that would really be an issue that the Saudis should be thinking about, that Israel needs to be thinking about and are thinking about, that the Egyptians need to be thinking about, that the Emirates need to be thinking about, that Jordan needs to be thinking about. | |
| They ought to be thinking about all these possibilities. | |
| Now, if I was them, and if you really truly understand how radical they are, they should be designing a plan to take out the nuclear facilities. | |
| Now, if they come to the United States after we have been attacked by them nearly 200 times, do I think the United States should help? | |
| Yeah, I would be in support of America providing the bunker buster bombs that they probably don't have, that they probably need, because these nuclear facilities, we know exactly where they are, are buried deep into the ground, and they take up a lot of the geographic area, which is extremely large in the country of Iran. | |
| You're not dealing with a small landmass here. | |
| Would it be a difficult military operation? | |
| It'd be extraordinarily difficult. | |
| Is it possible? | |
| Yeah, it's very possible. | |
| But, you know, if the world wants a nuclear-armed Iran, just be careful what you wish for. | |
| Because I'm not sure in this case that mutually assured destruction is going to prevent them from doing whatever it is that they want to do and launching a nuclear weapon one day. | |
| Do I believe them when they say they want to wipe Israel off the map? | |
| Yeah, I do believe that. | |
| Do I believe them when they say they want to wipe the U.S. off the map? | |
| Yeah, I believe that too. | |
| If people make a threat, I take it seriously. | |
| Maybe I'm old-fashioned. | |
| By the way, Volvo, an early electric car adopter, has now cut off funding for their EV affiliate Polestar. | |
| They said they will not provide further funding for the electric vehicle. | |
| Electric cars has been rocked by nothing but setbacks and massive financial losses. | |
| Earlier this week, the French automaker Renault said that it has decided to cancel their initial public offering on their electric car. | |
| Meanwhile, Ford, that lost $4.5 billion last year on their EV line, they now have slashed their production of their electric F-150 Lightning pickup trucks that generated major buzz since its launch. | |
| The only problem is consumers don't want them. | |
| Also this week, Tesla, that's Elon Musk's company, the world's most valuable automaker, warned of notably lower growth this coming year. | |
| And data released has shown that EV sales growth in the U.S. and automakers delaying or cutting back on plans. | |
| Why? | |
| Because Americans have shown that they don't want them. | |
| By the way, an American system of roadside guardrails may not be able to handle heavy electric vehicles according to a preliminary crash test result. | |
| Researchers, by the way, University of Nebraska crashed an over 7,000-pound electric pickup truck. | |
| And anyway, they hit a guardrail at 60 miles an hour. | |
| It resulted in the car tearing straight through the barrier. | |
| A separate test saw a Tesla Model 3, which weighs about 4,000 pounds, passed through a guardrail with a little more resistance, but it passed through, lifting the barrier and passing underneath before stopping behind it. | |
| That does not bode well for the EV industry. | |
| U.S. job growth did jump in January as the economy added 350,000 new positions. | |
| Now, if you're watching liberal media, you think this is the greatest news in the world. | |
| And by the way, I'm all for job creation. | |
| However, when you look at real take-home pay for families, under Donald Trump, it was plus 6,100. | |
| Under Biden, it's 2,000. | |
| Are you better off than you were four years ago? | |
| The answer is no. | |
| The jobs numbers, by the way, for 2023, nobody's been paying attention to this. | |
| They always revise those numbers downward. | |
| For 2023, we have the final revision. | |
| It's 1.2 million fewer jobs than they said that they had. | |
| There's another story that layoffs surged 98% in 2023 over the prior year. | |
| So all these idiots that live moment to moment and are obsessed with the stock market on like CNBC, for example, some of them are just dopes. | |
| They're not factoring in what the true history is here. | |
| Yeah, the stock market went up dramatically last year, which about made up for the losses the previous year. | |
| But layoffs surged 98% in 2023 over the previous year. | |
| You have Andy Gallagher, senior vice president executive, outplacement firm Challenger, has forewarned that cuts would continue into the new year, already surging 98%. | |
| There's one other thing. | |
| You know, a lot of these jobs, I talked to Steve Moore earlier today, wanted to get his take on it. | |
| He points out, yeah, they're part-time jobs that people that aren't making ends meet, and they're taking these jobs just to bring in extra income so that they don't have to use their high-interest credit cards for bare necessities. | |
| And by the way, the home market continues to be basically dead. | |
| Mortgage rates have dropped some, but many would-be sellers still have financial disincentives to move. | |
| I mean, and you really can't blame them. | |
| And then if you look at the debt, you wonder why Fitch, if you remember last year, they downgraded the nation's long-term credit score. | |
| Well, all is connected to the national debt, which is now over $4 trillion. | |
| Now, here's another bad omen for the American economy. | |
| Millions of Americans may face a lot higher tax bills because massive components of the Donald Trump tax cuts expire at the end of 2025. | |
| Enacted by former President Trump in 2017, the law drastically overhauled the nation's tax code, including reducing the top individual income tax bracket from 37 to 37, from 39.6, nearly doubling the size of the standard deduction. | |
| He did get rid of the SALT deduction, which I don't think states should be rewarded for anyway, which allowed people to deduct state and local income tax. | |
| Well, all that does is incentivize states to elect high-taxing politicians, which is stupid. | |
| But, you know, there's a lot of stupid out there right now. | |
| U.S. commercial property losses now are hammering banks. | |
| This was in the Wall Street Journal: $2.2 trillion of the U.S. commercial property loans will need to be refinanced by 2027 at much higher interest rates. | |
| Shares of the New York Community Bancorp fell 11% on Thursday, extending a steep slide that began a day earlier when the company disclosed troubles in its commercial property accounts. | |
| Yeah, because they can't afford to pay for them, especially when they don't have tenants. | |
| And one of the things COVID gave us, and one of the things the Biden economy gave us. | |
| Anyway, 800-941-Shawn is on number if you want to be a part of the program. | |
| We'll know more by tonight about these airstrikes. | |
| There's no point speculating. | |
| There's probably not going to be a lot of video, if any, but we'll see. | |
| We'll know by 9 o'clock tonight on Hannity. | |
| So if Iran is behind all of the proxy attacks against U.S. soldiers, the nearly 200 attacks against soldiers in Iraq and Syria, and they're responsible for what happened in Georgia last weekend and the killing of three U.S. soldiers. | |
| And if they're the ones funding these proxy wars with the Houdi rebels, and they're the ones that funded Hamas and their attacks against Israel, and they helped train those, the forces of Hamas prior to that invasion, according to reports, and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and their Quds forces was responsible for a lot of it. | |
| My question is this: as they begin their quote response that Joe has promised: why are they attacking Syria? | |
| If they really want to get to the root of the problem, why wouldn't you go to the head of the snake? | |
| That would be Iran. | |
| Just saying. | |
| Just an outside thought. | |
| You know, strange as that may be. | |
| We're going to look at the immigration issue in Texas next with Ken Paxton. | |
| Later on, Joe Concha on the media mob. |